Context As urbanization continues, ecosystem stability faces serious challenges. Ecological
security patterns have become a main tool with which the contradictions between economic …

Abstract The National Ecological Barrier Zones are an important part of China's ecological
security strategy. The construction of a scientific and reasonable ecological security pattern …

Resource-based cities (RBCs) have made outstanding contributions to China's social and
economic development over recent decades. Nevertheless, with the worsening climate …

Ecological security assessments are used to reflect the regional ecological security situation
because they can provide a basis for the construction of regional ecological security patterns …

Coal-resource-based cities (CRBCs) have played an essential role in China's economic
development over the past few decades, but ecological problems have become increasingly …

Building ecological security patterns is essential to maintain regional ecological security and
achieve sustainable development in the inland river basins with ecologically vulnerable …

Abstract Ecological Security Patterns (ESPs) are important nature-based solutions for
ecological problems caused by urbanization and industrialization. Previous studies on ESPs …

With accelerating urbanization, the regional ecological security pattern (ESP) faces
unprecedented threats. The situation is particularly serious in the Loess plateau of China …

Intensification of human activities is pushing our use of ecosystems beyond thresholds of
resiliency. Given the accelerating global crisis of ecological sustainability, there has been …

Long-term intensive open-pit mining can have huge impacts on ecosystems and the
services they provide, affecting the integrity of ecosystem structures, functions and process …